A living guide to Kauaʻi
Insects, Spiders & Relatives of Kauaʻi
Explore the island’s native and introduced species, habitats, watersheds and conservation work. Each record connects its description, images and sources with the interactive Atlas.
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Procanace bifurcata
Procanace bifurcata
Procanace bifurcata is a small canacid fly recorded from Kauaʻi, Oʻahu, Molokaʻi, and Maui in the 2016 revision.
Procanace nigroviridis
Procanace nigroviridis
Procanace nigroviridis is a Kauaʻi fly distinguished in the revised key by a coppery green facial sheen and brown-dusted thorax.
Eurynogaster mediocris
Eurynogaster mediocris
Eurynogaster mediocris is an endemic Hawaiian long-legged fly described by Tenorio in 1969.
Eurynogaster minor
Eurynogaster minor
Older Kauaʻi stream inventories list this fly as Eurynogaster minor; the 2005 generic revision transferred it to Major minor.
Paraliancalus metallicus
Paraliancalus metallicus
Paraliancalus metallicus was originally described as Liancalus metallicus and is the type species of Paraliancalus.
Saldula exulans
Saldula exulans
Saldula exulans is an endemic shore bug recorded in Kōkeʻe stream collections.
Saldula procellaris
Saldula procellaris
Saldula procellaris is an endemic shore bug recorded in the general collections from several Kōkeʻe-area streams.
Dryadaula advena
Dryadaula advena
Dryadaula advena is an introduced moth currently treated in Dryadaulidae.
Chloroclystis pyrrholopha
Chloroclystis pyrrholopha
Chloroclystis pyrrholopha was initially reported in Hawaiʻi under the provisional name Chloroclystis sp.
Pleuroprucha asthenaria
Pleuroprucha asthenaria
Pleuroprucha asthenaria is a small geometrid whose caterpillar moves with the characteristic looping gait.
Brephidium exilis
Brephidium exilis
Brephidium exilis belongs to Lycaenidae in the order Lepidoptera. Its recorded origin status is introduced.
Hellinsia beneficus
Hellinsia beneficus
Hellinsia beneficus is a plume moth introduced to Hawaiʻi against Ageratina riparia.
Cryptoblabes adoceta
Cryptoblabes adoceta
Hawaiian records previously called Cryptoblabes gnidiella or C. aliena were reassessed as C. adoceta using a DNA barcode and female genital morphology.
Ectomyelois ceratoniae
Ectomyelois ceratoniae
Ectomyelois ceratoniae belongs to Pyralidae in the order Lepidoptera. Its recorded origin status is introduced.
Ephestiodes gilvescentella
Ephestiodes gilvescentella
Ephestiodes gilvescentella is an introduced pyralid moth.
Trichophaga mormopis
Trichophaga mormopis
Trichophaga mormopis is an introduced tineid moth with a growing published Hawaiian island record.
Hypsopygia mauritialis
Hypsopygia mauritialis
Hypsopygia mauritialis has a documented Hawaiian association with old paper-wasp nests: the island-record paper lists specimens from an old Polistes nest on Hawaiʻi Island.
Opogona purpuriella
Opogona purpuriella
Opogona purpuriella was already recorded from Kauaʻi, Oʻahu, Molokaʻi, and Hawaiʻi Island when a modern review added Maui.
Dryadaula terpsichorella
Dryadaula terpsichorella
Dryadaula terpsichorella is known as the dancing moth because of the distinctive movements of resting adults.
Disclisioprocta stellata
Disclisioprocta stellata
Disclisioprocta stellata is the bougainvillea looper, a geometrid moth whose caterpillars feed on foliage and move by arching the body.
Peridroma saucia
Peridroma saucia
Peridroma saucia belongs to Noctuidae in the order Lepidoptera. Its recorded origin status is introduced.
Brachycyttarus griseus
Brachycyttarus griseus
Brachycyttarus griseus is the grass bagworm.
Alucita objurgatella
Alucita objurgatella
Alucita objurgatella is a many-plumed moth.
Phereoeca allutella
Phereoeca allutella
Phereoeca allutella belongs to Tineidae in the order Lepidoptera. Its recorded origin status is introduced.
Prognathogryllus flavidus
Prognathogryllus flavidus
Prognathogryllus flavidus was described by Otte in 1994 in the systematic treatment of Hawaiian crickets.
Prognathogryllus robustus
Prognathogryllus robustus
Prognathogryllus robustus was originally described from a female from Kauaʻi’s high central plateau.
Exillis lepidus
Exillis lepidus
Exillis lepidus belongs to Anthribidae in the order Coleoptera. Its recorded origin status is introduced / adventive.
Proterhinus basalis
Proterhinus basalis
Proterhinus basalis belongs to Belidae in the order Coleoptera. Its recorded origin status is endemic — kauaʻi.
Proterhinus nigricans
Proterhinus nigricans
Proterhinus nigricans belongs to Belidae in the order Coleoptera. Its recorded origin status is endemic — kauaʻi.
Orchidophilus peregrinator
Orchidophilus peregrinator
Orchidophilus peregrinator belongs to Curculionidae in the order Coleoptera. Its recorded origin status is introduced / adventive.
Stenotrupis marshalli
Stenotrupis marshalli
Stenotrupis marshalli belongs to Curculionidae in the order Coleoptera. Its recorded origin status is introduced / adventive.
Oodemas comitans
Oodemas comitans
Oodemas comitans belongs to Curculionidae in the order Coleoptera. Its recorded origin status is endemic — kauaʻi.
Acalles lateralis
Acalles lateralis
Acalles lateralis belongs to Curculionidae in the order Coleoptera. Its recorded origin status is endemic hawaiian.
Dryophthorus insignis
Dryophthorus insignis
Dryophthorus insignis belongs to Dryophthoridae in the order Coleoptera. Its recorded origin status is endemic hawaiian.
Diocalandra taitensis
Diocalandra taitensis
Diocalandra taitensis belongs to Dryophthoridae in the order Coleoptera. Its recorded origin status is introduced / adventive.
Myocalandra exarata
Myocalandra exarata
Myocalandra exarata belongs to Dryophthoridae in the order Coleoptera. Its recorded origin status is introduced / adventive.
Rhabdoscelus obscurus
Rhabdoscelus obscurus
Rhabdoscelus obscurus belongs to Dryophthoridae in the order Coleoptera. Its recorded origin status is introduced / adventive.
Proterhinus angustiformis
Proterhinus angustiformis
Proterhinus angustiformis belongs to Belidae in the order Coleoptera. Its recorded origin status is endemic — kauaʻi.
Proterhinus collaris
Proterhinus collaris
Proterhinus collaris belongs to Belidae in the order Coleoptera. Its recorded origin status is endemic — kauaʻi.
Proterhinus miricornis
Proterhinus miricornis
Proterhinus miricornis belongs to Belidae in the order Coleoptera. Its recorded origin status is endemic — kauaʻi.
Oodemas swezeyi
Oodemas swezeyi
Oodemas swezeyi belongs to Curculionidae in the order Coleoptera. Its recorded origin status is endemic — kauaʻi.
Dryophthorus pusillus
Dryophthorus pusillus
Dryophthorus pusillus belongs to Dryophthoridae in the order Coleoptera. Its recorded origin status is endemic hawaiian.
Striped Rhyncogonus Weevil
Rhyncogonus vittatus
Striped Rhyncogonus Weevil (Rhyncogonus vittatus) belongs to Curculionidae in the order Coleoptera. Its recorded origin status is endemic — kauaʻi.
Rhyncogonus stygius
Rhyncogonus stygius
Rhyncogonus stygius belongs to Curculionidae in the order Coleoptera. Its recorded origin status is endemic — kauaʻi.
Rhyncogonus tuberculatus
Rhyncogonus tuberculatus
Rhyncogonus tuberculatus belongs to Curculionidae in the order Coleoptera. Its recorded origin status is endemic — kauaʻi.
Hypurus bertrandi
Hypurus bertrandi
Hypurus bertrandi belongs to Curculionidae in the order Coleoptera. Its recorded origin status is introduced / adventive.
Rice Weevil
Sitophilus oryzae
Rice Weevil (Sitophilus oryzae) belongs to Dryophthoridae in the order Coleoptera. Its recorded origin status is introduced / adventive.
Banana Root Borer
Cosmopolites sordidus
Banana Root Borer (Cosmopolites sordidus) belongs to Dryophthoridae in the order Coleoptera. Its recorded origin status is introduced / adventive.
Sphenophorus cariosus
Sphenophorus cariosus
Sphenophorus cariosus belongs to Dryophthoridae in the order Coleoptera. Its recorded origin status is introduced / adventive.
Sphenophorus venatus vestitus
Sphenophorus venatus vestitus
Sphenophorus venatus vestitus belongs to Dryophthoridae in the order Coleoptera. Its recorded origin status is introduced / adventive.
Microlarinus lareynii
Microlarinus lareynii
Microlarinus lareynii belongs to Curculionidae in the order Coleoptera. Its recorded origin status is introduced — biocontrol.
Puncturevine Stem Weevil
Microlarinus lypriformis
Puncturevine Stem Weevil (Microlarinus lypriformis) belongs to Curculionidae in the order Coleoptera. Its recorded origin status is introduced — biocontrol.
Coccotrypes carpophagus
Coccotrypes carpophagus
Coccotrypes carpophagus belongs to Curculionidae in the order Coleoptera. Its recorded origin status is introduced / adventive.
Coccotrypes cyperi
Coccotrypes cyperi
Coccotrypes cyperi belongs to Curculionidae in the order Coleoptera. Its recorded origin status is introduced / adventive.
Coccotrypes dactyliperda
Coccotrypes dactyliperda
Coccotrypes dactyliperda belongs to Curculionidae in the order Coleoptera. Its recorded origin status is introduced / adventive.
Drosophila ornata
Drosophila ornata
Drosophila ornata is a Kauaʻi member of the Hawaiian picture-wing radiation, placed in the adiastola assemblage.
Drosophila picticornis
Drosophila picticornis
Drosophila picticornis breeds in fermenting sap flows, an important distinction from the decaying-bark substrates used by many other Hawaiian picture-wing flies.
Drosophila quasianomalipes
Drosophila quasianomalipes
Drosophila quasianomalipes and D. anomalipes are closely related Kauaʻi flies that occur on the same island but differ markedly in morphology and behavior.
Drosophila spiethi
Drosophila spiethi
Drosophila spiethi belongs to the modified-tarsus assemblage, in which adult leg characters are important for identification.
Drosophila villosipedis
Drosophila villosipedis
Drosophila villosipedis has been documented breeding in decaying bark of native and introduced plants.
